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Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Volotea still flying under the radar...but for how long?

 Not exactly welcomed by everyone...

These past weeks have been quite hectic for Volotea, Europe’s startup airline...and I say "Europe's" because as we progressively get to know more about the project it becomes more and more clear that this is a project with European ambitions. Just a few months after Volotea was unveiled, its network already spans most of Italy, France and Spain, with some routes reaching as far as Poland and the Greek islands. Reminds me of Flybe, but on a much wider, pan-European, scale. 

Until now Volotea had been flying below the radar, IAG's chairman Antonio Vazquez even said to this blogger at a recent event in London that they are not concerned at all since there is currently little overlap, however if growth continues at this pace it might soon set the alarm bells off in some quarters...while we do not know for how long this tranquility will last,Transavia's CEO has already made it clear that they take Volotea very very seriously...

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Presenting Alexander Apostolides, new guest writer reporting on the airline industry in Southeast Europe

When I recently started this blog the plan was to share with the readers interesting airline and aviation stories from around the world. One of the areas where interesting things are happening in this sector is South Eastern Europe, that occupies the strategic space between the traditional large airline markets of Western Europe and the emerging airline hubs in the Middle East. In what regards the airline and aviation sector this is definitely a part of the World I would keep on the radar. With this aim, Alex Apostolides is joining this project as guest writer, reporting on the airline business in his native Cyprus and the whole surrounding region. I give him a warm welcome to this blog and I hope you will enjoy his posts.